After all the hype and controversies the film finally released yesterday in Trivandrum and I was there to see it first day first show. And… hmm, the book was better! To make it clear, I wasn’t a huge fan of the book either. Thought it was a fairly good novel, but not as good as it was made out to be. Just too much hype! So all in all, it was a bit disappointing.

There are some flashes of brilliance in the movie. The scene in which Sophie’s parent’s gets killed is one of the best I have ever seen. Kudos to Ron Howard for that shot! Technically the movie was sound and the location choices were excellent. But there aren’t too many more good things I can point out about the movie though. I would have expected much more from the team that made Apollo 13 and the likes. Well, Tom Hanks didn’t have much acting to do, just delivering long dialogues as if he was reading passages from the novel. Audrey Tautau was disappointing too. She was amazing in Amelie, but in this her acting seemed a bit artificial. Paul Bettany is an exception here. His role as Silas the albino is commendable.

The part I least liked about the novel was the over-dramatic ending. This was made even more over-dramatic and dragged out in the movie. Even the theatre audience, who have seen many a masala climax, seemed to agree with hoots, sighs and loud wise-cracks.

I wouldn’t recommend this movie unless you are die-hard fan of the book and want to see how everything translates on screen or if you can’t resist the temptations, and is too curious to find out what all the hype is about.

So my review: An ordinary movie, nothing amazing. 6 on 10 :)

Why I do not know. But me and my friends never miss a bad movie to hit town. Hindi, Malayalam, English … we have seen the worst of it all. And with each passing day we get to see a new movie that sets a new benchmark! The latest one was the Malayalam flick “Rashtram”, on which we unfortunately wasted 30 bucks. I still don’t get what the hell those film-makers were doing, apart from boring us to death! So today I take a bold decision. Why suffer alone? Why not publish my worst nightmares? Hehe. Get ready to taste the worst.

Here go my recommendations for the worst movies ever made, that you should probably never spend money to see in a theatre.

God! We have seen enough bad films, that “Rashtram” doesn’t even feature in the worst 5! Scary!!

So today I had some time to kill, and being a big fan of the Star Wars epics I chose to see the latest offering from Lucas – Revenge of the Sith. I wasn’t totally disappointed. Well, comparing it with the prequels, it fared much better than Episode II (which I thought was the worst SW movie ever!) and was at par with Episode I. But definitely no where near the magic of the original three movies.

Special effects as expected were quite awesome. It all seemed so magically realistic, the level of detail is quite amazing. At some point you really can’t identify what is real and what is graphics. The trademark light saber sequences are better than ever. I particularly liked the fight sequence between Obi-Van Kenobi and General Grievous.

Coming to the story, well not that great. Annakin changed into Darth Vader just a bit too quickly for my liking. Hmmm… the much hyped most “dramatic” character transformation in movie history could have been a little more convincing, in my humble opinion. The movie wasn’t paced properly at all. There are times when you felt it was really dragging on and on and at other occassions everything happens at light speed.

But if you are Star Wars fan, or maybe even if you are not, I think it is a must see. At the very least you get to know how all the pieces fall together and set the stage for one of best trilogies ever. I would give this a 7 on 10.